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New series of Erema machines produce agglomerates
the feed material varies greatly, for
example in terms of polymer, geom-
etry and moisture, this combination
ensures stable process control. The
material is homogenised, degassed,
preheated, and continuously fed into
a short extruder without upstream
drying. The machine handles up to
2.3 tonnes per hour.
From the extruder, the partially
melted material strand is fed directly
through a melt pipe into the water-
K ties of 280 to 380 kg/m and a defined parti-
cooled melt mill. Here, it is formed
2025 sees Erema launch the Agglorema
into agglomerates with bulk densi-
generation of machines, a new recycling
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system specially developed for process-
ing heavily contaminated post-consumer waste. cle size. Depending on the configuration, down-
stream drying can reduce the residual moisture
up to less than one percent. The process layout
The new Agglorema system from Erema pro-
cesses heavily contaminated plastic waste on a is deliberately kept straightforward and robust.
large scale to produce pourable agglomerates The system capitalises on the advantages of ex-
with a high bulk density that is ideally suited as trusion, but significantly reduces process tem-
feedstock for chemical recycling. Copyright: Er- perature and energy consumption.
ema GmbH
The Agglorema can be used to prepare feed-
The machine processes film rejects with high lev- stock materials for chemical recycling as well
els of fluctuating moisture from sorting systems as for mechanical recycling. Agglomerates pro-
on a large scale to produce agglomerates with a duced from mixed polyolefin fractions can be
high bulk density that are an ideal feedstock for used in the manufacture of simple components,
chemical recycling, among other applications. for example.
Agglorema processes heavily contaminated In addition to the new Agglorema system, Ere-
waste streams with a low bulk density (from 30 ma also offers the Chemarema series, a solution
kg/m ) and moisture contents of up to 12 per cent. for chemical recycling in which the melt is fed
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This is made possible by combining the Erema directly into the reactor.
Preconditioning Unit (PCU) with patented Coun- Source – RECYCLING magazine
ter Current technology and a specially designed
extruder screw. Even when the composition of
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